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Jailing Vipond for 30 months at Derby Crown Court, Judge Peter Cooke said: “You were linked to these offences in quite dramatic circumstances when a car you were in ended up upside down on a verge on the M6 motorway.

“You were spotted coming back to the scene and I have no doubt that was so you could remove evidence linking you to the offences.

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“In terms of the break-in at the Natural Kitchen Company you had been employed there as a joiner and had recently left and there was a dispute over sick pay.

“This was a high-value loss for a small business to bear and you deliberately targeted it because you had inside knowledge as a former employee and through spite.”

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Ian Way, prosecuting, said the Ripley burglary took place overnight October 9 to 10, 2016 at the firm’s address in Peasehill Road.

He said: “The defendant had previously been employed there as a joiner and had taken a number of days off sick.

“His employment had been terminated and there was some dispute over sick pay he felt he was owed which the owner was not paying.

“Workers arrived at work at around 6am on October 10 and the lights were on and the doors open.

”It was soon established that a large number of items were missing.”

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Mr Way said the car crash Vipond was involved in took place later the same day between junction one and two of the M6 in Warwickshire.

He said police attended and no-one was in the stolen vehicle but the defendant was spotted coming out of a hedge and approaching the car and it was established he was “coming to remove items linking him to the two break-ins”.

Mr Way said: “The defendant ran off chased by the officer who had to deploy the Taser and he was arrested.”

Vipond, formerly of Ashmount Road, Langley Mill and now of HMP Nottingham, said the items linking him to the burglary in his street were taken by another unnamed person.